Short fat rockets

[PokerJones]

Polecat Thumper Jr. My only short/fat rocket, great flyer.

 

[Super_Dave_47]

My two stage fat boy and 29 mm big daddy

 

[Hobie1dog]

This is not my rocket but I have one that is unpainted so I'm putting up a picture of someone else's who did a great job on their PML MR-1 rocket

 

[Hobie1dog]

Public Enemy Fatboy, sure wish they still made it, it is one of my favorites

 

[BABAR]

Not mine, mine didn’t turn out this well, but I liked it

https://www.rocketreviews.com/semroc-astronautics-corporation-geehod--by-frank-casey.html

 

[Five]

Micro magg and Nano magg. The micro magg I still have after six launches. The Nano magg went into outer space on its first launch.

 

[crossfire]

Public Enemy Fatboy, sure wish they still made it, it is one of my favorites

The Fat boy with forward fins was a lot of weight in nose needed?

 

[crossfire]

Almost doesn't fit given the ultra tailcone, but it is classic Public Missiles and it is my favorite.
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Did you need to add a lot of weight

 

[cwbullet]

Public Enemy Fatboy, sure wish they still made it, it is one of my favorites

Is there interest in something like this?

 

[Hobie1dog]

Is there interest in something like this?

I exchanged emails with Dave about 2 years ago and he eventually said it wasn't worth his time to produce them again.

 

[o1d_dude]

I exchanged emails with Dave about 2 years ago and he eventually said it wasn't worth his time to produce them again.

He’s a big time custom boat builder/designer now, isn’t he?

 

[Ronz Rocketz]

I like my Missile Toe clone at 1:26.

 

[jqavins]

Just think by today's standard the classic song Fat Bottom Girls make the rocken world go around would not be aloud on the air. What has the world come to.

♪ Fat bottom birds
♪ they make the rocket world go 'round. ♫

Anyway, mines a plain old Big Daddy, with a 29 mm conversion, because it's what I did my L1 flight on. And I lost it at my last launch.

 

[rockladen]

My "Short" Black Brant II or as a spectator shouted out: "that's a 0.6 Black Brant II !". Got me my TRA Level 1 Certification on Saturday!

 

[cwbullet]

I exchanged emails with Dave about 2 years ago and he eventually said it wasn't worth his time to produce them again.

I might have some parts left from some custom birds I cut for a friend.

 

[crossfire]

My "Short" Black Brant II or as a spectator shouted out: "that's a 0.6 Black Brant II !". Got me my TRA Level 1 Certification on Saturday!
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Great job on your L1

 

[Ronz Rocketz]

♪ Fat bottom birds
♪ they make the rocket world go 'round. ♫

Anyway, mines a plain old Big Daddy, with a 29 mm conversion, because it's what I did my L1 flight on. And I lost it at my last launch.

How could I leave that behind?

 

[rockladen]

Thank you crossfire!!

 

[Joekeyo]

Big Daddy with big green nose. Everglades Mosquito - Flys great on C6-5.

 

[Cape Byron]

Goonie Vostok.

 

[Mr G]

Estes MDRM converted to Army duty.



Lifting off on another mission. Next flight will include real army men (plastic paratroopers) to take on the bad guys.

 

[Pariah Zero]

♪ Fat bottom birds
♪ they make the rocket world go 'round. ♫

Anyway, mines a plain old Big Daddy, with a 29 mm conversion, because it's what I did my L1 flight on. And I lost it at my last launch.

I wanna be cool, so I’m building a 54mm Big Daddy.

 

[askrob]

This photo is old, and I would engineer this a bit differently today.. These are 3 G motors I can't remember if it was a G80T or a G125T.

 

[BigMacDaddy]

I tried this variation of a Bullet Bill (probably totally naïve and was unsuccessful but still a fun experiment)...

Not sure if it was actually stable (it was stable on a swing test) but arched due to imperfect construction or windcocking (and then crashed due to incredibly heavy nose) or if it was inherently unstable (I think you can maybe see it wiggle and stabilize a number of times). If it was stable but has a tendency to arc, I could maybe spin it to make it corkscrew up into the sky. If it was unstable then no helping it. I made a revised version with only 2 fins on front and some canted fin tabs inside the ring tail to try to make it spin. Have not wanted to waste another D engine on it though so have not launched again.



Here is the one and only launch:

 

[Ronz Rocketz]

I tried this variation of a Bullet Bill (probably totally naïve and was unsuccessful but still a fun experiment)...

Not sure if it was actually stable (it was stable on a swing test) but arched due to imperfect construction or windcocking (and then crashed due to incredibly heavy nose) or if it was inherently unstable (I think you can maybe see it wiggle and stabilize a number of times). If it was stable but has a tendency to arc, I could maybe spin it to make it corkscrew up into the sky. If it was unstable then no helping it. I made a revised version with only 2 fins on front and some canted fin tabs inside the ring tail to try to make it spin. Have not wanted to waste another D engine on it though so have not launched again.

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Here is the one and only launch:

Add a 12” tube and NC with some weight. I’d say sim it but good luck with that.

 

[hball55]

Vaughn Brothers King Blobbo.

 

[hball55]

Public Enemy went out of business years ago. I have a couple of their 4" V2s and an Honest John. Wish I had bought their Fatboy too. They used a unique shock cord, kind of like those cords you use to hold stuff down, with the hooks on the ends. The shock cord didn't have the hooks, just the fabric covered rubber stretchy cords. It's been over 20 years since I bought mine, so I've changed out the cords for tubular nylon.,

 

[jd2cylman]

Almost doesn't fit given the ultra tailcone, but it is classic Public Missiles and it is my favorite.
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Public Enemy?

 

[BigMacDaddy]

I’d say sim it but good luck with that.

Haha... yeah, Open Rocket does not handle ring fins very well, much less that number of fins... I did try...

 

[hball55]

Here is a Smokin' Rockets Chubsy, 7.5" dia. and 36" tall, that I converted to a Bullet Bill thanks to Mark at Stickershock23 and his decals.